Mig Quinet (Charleroi 1906 - Brussels 2001)
Founding member of "La Jeune Peinture Belge" (Young Belgian Painters 1945-48)
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"Table d'aquarelles au petit torse" 1948, Gouache & pastel, 47 x 59 cm
Exhibited at Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels 1953, Ixelles Museum 2013
Call 02 539.23.09 or mail group2@skynet.be

"Jazz orchestra" 1948, Gouache
​Ink on cardboard, 56 x 72 cm

"Paysage à froid - Landscape in the Ardennes" 1948
​Oil on canvas

"Table au flacon" 1946, Oil on canvas

The "Young Belgian Painters" at the wedding of Marc Mendelson in 1945
​Mig Quinet is seated in the middle

"Submarine" ca 1944

"La table d'aquarelles" 1946, Oil on canvas

"Le Voyage bleu" 1954-56,  Oil on canvas

"Patch city" 1957, oil & collage on canvas

"Musical fury - Colère musicale" 1966, oil on canvas

"Grand beau temps" 1969, Oil on canvas

Daphné, 1971, Oil on canvas

Mig Quinet, born near Charleroi in 1906, was educated at the Fine Arts Academy in Brussels. Her first solo exhibition was held in 1938 at Galerie Manteau in Brussels. She took part in the "Apport" exhibitions at the "Galerie Apollo" from 1945 onwards. Her acquaintance with  Brussels lawyer and mecenas René Lust allowed the foundation of the group of the "Jeune Peinture Belge" (Young Belgian Painters) in 1945. During a JPB exhibition in Stockholm in 1947 she was involved in a serious traffic accident. After a long recovery and despite the dissolution of the group in 1948, she fought like a lioness to continue her artistic career. Her abstract works of the 50s, her "allusive figurations" of the 60’s and 70’s bear witness to a joy of  life and an exceptional originality. The most typical element in her work, however, is the intense use of bright and bold colours. Its fragmented images, the violence of her palette of primary colours, her imagination, her sense of humor, her poetic sensibility, her use of pure white, her bold perspectives, her spirited writing, all this leads us to state that Mig Quinet deserves to be among the great artists, not only of the Jeune Peinture Belge, but of the Belgian modern art scene “tout court”. 
Group 2 Gallery has been promoting for several decades Quinet's oeuvre and has exhibited and sold many important paintings, gouaches and drawings. Feel free to contact us by mail group2@skynet.be or by phone 02 539.23.09 for more information or if you wish to sell one of her works.

 

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